Troy Lee if your a jv coach who cares that much about the team then your gonna be a varsity coach soon. I remember my jv coach and most coaches of teams we played couldn’t give a shit.

@@PK-po9lf that is where you are wrong brotha. Coaches don’t just coach to move up in the rankings. Coaches coach for the love of the game and the love of their players whether their team is god awful or great!

It's one of the easiest ways to tell if your college program has a good coach or not: do they recruit players that fit the style of basketball they want to play (this is especially true of programs that don't get the 5 star talent each and every year). Think about the longest tenured coaches at non blue blood schools. If someone said to describe a Bob Huggins player, or a Matt Painter player, or a Chris Beard player, or Tony Bennett, or a Frank Martin player, you can easily picture and describe that player. Identities make programs

Probably more player movement and cuts to the basket. They mostly just choked under pressure when they got swarmed so I don’t think they have to do anything drastic

To run this type of offense this is pretty much who you are so running another offense is out of question. You just have to keep running it with multiple passes to find holes where you can

The best way might be just to space the floor with 5-out and prioritize backdoor cuts, drives, and ball screens, which they did try, but that might be too drastic an adjustment. This is a nightmare matchup for Richmond

It's the same counter for most teams when they face this type of ball denial pressure: you have to be able to beat your man. If players are taught the skills needed to beat the on ball pressure, then (as the video outlined) the lane will be open for layups, or create situations where help defenders have to commit to the rim and you get wide open kick out 3s. Something Richmond didn't do a lot of is finish cuts. You would see some perimeter players be denied, then kinda half try to back door cut, but once they were denied, they just moved back to where they started. In order for that specific type of offense to be effective, those players need to "finish cuts" (continue to cut through and relocate to another spot on the floor). That allows the player behind them either space to get open and receive a pass, or another back door cut if the defender is anticipating the denial

30 point difference to just backdoor cut huh lol

When there is a decent size difference between offensive and defensive players, that becomes more difficult than at the high school level where, for the most part, players are generally the same size as the people they're guarding. West Virginia has length everywhere on the floor, so even if a Richmond player were able to use their body to create some space, the length of the WVU defense takes some of that advantage away. Also, in most Princeton offenses, players are taught not to fight pressure, leading to the plethora of back door cuts that define Princeton offenses. And finally, quite frankly, kids aren't taught that anymore. The way kids are coached in college (having been an assistant at a college program) don't usually allow for teaching kids how to step in front, seal, and create space. They should have learned that in high school (probably says more about their H.S. program than the college program than anything else). You can't effectively install various different offensive actions, plays, and concepts if you have to teach your players a school as rudimentary as how to cut to get open. As frustrating as that is, it's the reality of modern basketball